Quotes About Progress

Think Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast. You start with easy, because if that's all you get, that's not so bad. Then work on light. Make it effortless, like you don't give a shit how high the hill is or how far you've got to go. When you've practiced that so long that you forget you're practicing, you work on making it smooooooth. You won't have to worry about the last one—you get those three, and you'll be fast.

slova sociologa Erika Hoffera: "Vše velké za?íná jako hnutí, m?ní se to v podnikání a kon?í jako kšefta?ení.

Know why people run marathons? Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human.

We're hardwired by nature to find common social ground, to believe that whatever we're doing today is normal and not much different from the way people have always behaved. We assume human achievement is on an upward slope, that learning from the past has made us stronger and smarter than anyone of the past.

Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe eventually appears to blow it up and rebuild from the rubble.

dice el Demonio—, uno se hace viejo porque deja de correr".

Es hace poco que contamos con la tecnología necesaria para convertir el holgazaneo en una forma de vida; hemos cogido nuestros cuerpos vigorosos y resistentes de cazadores-recolectores y los hemos dejado caer en un mundo artificial de ocio.

it's like in life, you have obstacles and you train to overcome them. You search for the best technique. You keep the best, you repeat it, and then you get better.

Okay, so primitive man upgraded his hardware with a bigger brain

New movements, no matter how necessary or logical, just feel wrong.

A la segunda semana, Eric ya estaba enviándome a hacer recorridos de dos horas; su único consejo era que me mantuviera atento a la técnica y mantuviera un ritmo relajado, lo suficiente para que pudiera respirar a ratos con la boca cerrada (cincuenta años atrás, Arthur Lydiard dio un consejo equivalente aunque opuesto para controlar el pulso cardíaco y el ritmo: «No corras tan rápido que no puedas mantener una conversación»).

hemos cogido nuestros cuerpos vigorosos y resistentes de cazadores-recolectores y los hemos dejado caer en un mundo artificial de ocio.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Il mondo ha stampato libri per 450 anni, eppure la polvere da sparo ha tuttora una più larga diffusione. Non importa! L'inchiostro da stampa è il più grande esplosivo: vincerà.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you set aside your ego.

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

The big steel wheels creaked a couple times, then started moving.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Everything is 'smart' now. The library cataloging system is smart, classification and indexing information entered into a uniform online database. People wept and lamented the loss of the old cards, then forgot them. They pretty much forget everything they weep over and lament. Clop-clop of hooves on the street. The humble art of carrying a block of ice up the stairs, pincered by a pair of tongs. Rotary phones and 33 rpm records. Stamp-pad ink and poster paint.

It is heartening to realize that we are not nearly so stuck as it might at first appear. Cultures do change. Things that now seem normal—such as hyper-individualism and economism—can suddenly come to be seen as untenable and brought to an end with surprising quickness. These seismic changes occur as people free themselves from limiting beliefs and in the process cultivate a new worldview.